I have narrowed down, and bolded the offending occurence. Thing is, though, that whenever I remove it, which requires a visit to safe mode, another one spawns. This leads me to believe there is an offending file somewhere else just shooting out decoys. I am running AVG on this machine, with Windows Defender. Both have scanned and found nothing. That particular file, hp7ce0.tmp, turns up nothing on Google. The first file name I noticed within this behavior, was hp9bc3.tmp, which points to Spy Falcon. I went through all removal processes of that, but still can't cure it.

Anyone have suggestions?

EDIT: Seems to be linked to Spy Quake - but all the uninstall paths/files/reg entries are already gone.

I have been doing it for awhile, but the last 6 months or so have REALLY picked up. Generally, mostly because it takes an ARSE load of time, if it's not something that can be cleaned to a satisfactory level within an hour or two I just re-install. This is mostly done to save me the headache, and ultimately save the client money. I haven't really been thorough with one in awhile, and while frustrating, this particular infection has my interest